The award-winning author of Finnikin of the
Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family’s hard-won
healing on the other side of trauma.Award-winning author Melina
Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel
Saving Francesca - but five years have passed, and now it’s Thomas Mackee who
needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a
foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back
on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can’t forget.
Shooting for oblivion, he’s hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single,
pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with
his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom’s in no shape to mend what’s broken. But
what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and
the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper’s Son redefines what
it means to go home again.

I LOVED The Piper´s Son! This book was recommended to me because I had just read Where She Went by Gayle Forman and I was looking for a similar book.